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SCA: security update for sqlfluff (GHSA-wmhf-fqc8-vxhh)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 443055

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - SQLFluff is a modular SQL linter and auto-formatter with support for multiple dialects and templated code.
 Prior to version 4.1.0, in deployments where untrusted users can provide SQL queries to be linted, an
 untrusted user can submit a malicious query with deliberate excessive nesting to any application using the
 parser to trigger a Denial of Service through resource exhaustion. This issue has been patched in version
 4.1.0. (CVE-2026-46373)

Solution

Update the sqlfluff library and its related packages to version 4.1.0 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wmhf-fqc8-vxhh

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 443055

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 6/10/2026

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.76

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46373

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46373

cwe: CWE-674